Go Discover, fuselage-less

BlueFlyer · March 11, 2015, 11:36:51 PM

cheers Billy, I'm now considering buying a new set of wings and a carbon spar as they're in stock right now in UK warehouse.......

Billy_boy_2010 · March 12, 2015, 12:41:05 AM

How does it compare to the GD?

A friend of mine has a GD and found landing really difficult. High stall speed and 75% of the time on landing it would bounce and flip around. He didn't fly it heavy either 1x 3000 4s.

When in the air it was great, however.

BlueFlyer · March 12, 2015, 08:29:03 AM

This is super light, flys brilliantly. Flys slow enough for me to catch it too.

FPVSteve · March 12, 2015, 09:20:54 PM

Put some red tape over that weave stuff, it'll look even better.

BlueFlyer · March 12, 2015, 09:57:43 PM

Quote from: Steve W on March 12, 2015, 09:20:54 PM
Put some red tape over that weave stuff, it'll look even better.

lol, Steve W and tape... that takes me back :)

dont have any red tape bud... just this stuff

FPVSteve · March 13, 2015, 01:25:40 PM

lol .. how very dare you :laugh:

BlueFlyer · March 14, 2015, 01:38:06 PM

oops, this is the end of this one (no Steve W I won't just tape it together lol) but my next wing will definitely be made with the Go Discover wings.

Go-dver crash

BlueFlyer · March 14, 2015, 01:40:06 PM

iwan_canobi · March 14, 2015, 02:35:54 PM

Bloody hell, what happened??

FPVSteve · March 14, 2015, 02:38:48 PM

Oooo ... looked like you lost signal and hadn't set failsafe to have neutral surfaces??

On another note that's a lovely place to fly. If you had a plane :D

BlueFlyer · March 14, 2015, 05:36:13 PM

Quote from: Steve W on March 14, 2015, 02:38:48 PM
Oooo ... looked like you lost signal and hadn't set failsafe to have neutral surfaces??

thats right... for some reason the failsafe on this rx is set to snap roll right lol.... oops

no idea what caused it, not too fussed though as I managed to get it back if only for the electronics.

the built in dominator v2 DVR was a god send, i was able to instantly watch back the flight up until the moment I lost video and figured out roughly where it went down. went for a little wander and found it

only thing broken (apart from the airframe that is) is the SMA connector from the VTX PCB

Quote from: Steve W on March 14, 2015, 02:38:48 PM
On another note that's a lovely place to fly. If you had a plane :D

it is Steve, one of the best places I've flown FPV. And I do have a plane lol, I've got a Bix3 here and another build in progress ;)

Billy_boy_2010 · March 15, 2015, 08:41:24 AM

Bad luck. Looked like fun though!

Are there any mods or changes you will make to the mark II?

BlueFlyer · March 15, 2015, 10:37:30 AM

Quote from: Billy_boy_2010 on March 15, 2015, 08:41:24 AM
Bad luck. Looked like fun though!

Are there any mods or changes you will make to the mark II?

Yeah, I'm thinking about a centre section of some sort. for 2 reasons...

1. for easier motor mounting... these wings have a lot of reflex built into their cross section, and it's more pronounced at the back where the wings meet and where you'd have the motor. This means it's a pain in the backside to make a flat motor mount with the right thrust angle (I think I just got lucky with this one). I had to cut out almost half of the wing chord just to get a flat area.

2. to make mounting the FPV gear and batteries a bit easier.

I will probably make bunny ears out of depron next time insted of using the fins from the Go Discover. They were a bit fat lol.

DaveyLC · March 31, 2015, 02:23:31 PM

Quote from: BlueFlyer on March 14, 2015, 01:40:06 PM

Laminate the next one and it will survive the impact :D

BlueFlyer · March 31, 2015, 03:49:07 PM

perhaps lol

doesn't matter anyway, as the UK warehouse are out of stock for these wings.... so I bought a Z84 Wing Wing instead.

much smaller, but a FPV cam and IRC600 vtx won't stress it too much. no point putting a mobius on it.